Mix K S, Huttenlocher J, Levine S C
Department of Psychology, University of Chicago, IL 60637, USA.
Child Dev. 1996 Aug;67(4):1592-608.
The present study investigated the ability of 3- and 4-year-old children to perform tasks which require matching sets of sounds to numerically equivalent visual displays. We found that 3-year-olds performed at chance on the auditory-visual matching task, while 4-year-olds performed significantly above chance. There is evidence that mastery of the linguistic counting system is related to success on this task. These findings are unexpected given previous research reporting that 6-8-month-olds can detect the numerical equivalence between a set of sounds and items in a visual display.
本研究调查了3岁和4岁儿童执行需要将声音集合与数量相等的视觉显示进行匹配任务的能力。我们发现，3岁儿童在视听匹配任务中的表现是随机的，而4岁儿童的表现则显著高于随机水平。有证据表明，对语言计数系统的掌握与这项任务的成功有关。鉴于之前的研究报告称6至8个月大的婴儿能够检测出一组声音与视觉显示中的物品之间的数量等价性，这些发现出乎意料。
